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Title: Bill Mitchell and Thunderbug on Bangshift Post by: Fiatdude on October 18, 2012, 18:09:00 pm http://bangshift.com/blog/caption-this-bitchin-photo-bill-mitchell-the-thunderbug-and-an-unknown-set-of-legs.html
Title: Re: Bill Mitchell and Thunderbug on Bangshift Post by: Shag55 on October 18, 2012, 21:07:42 pm Cool! He was way ahead of his time.
Title: Re: Bill Mitchell and Thunderbug on Bangshift Post by: dangerous on October 19, 2012, 02:07:07 am Actually I believe he actually ran the first NA 10's in the bug before the Schley Brothers,
although the chop top was technically not NHRA legal, due to the wind screen angle, it still ran the numbers! Pretty impressive NA for 1972. Peter Keegan here in Australia was the first Bug of any class to ever run in the 10s with a supercharged 2180, earlier the same year. |